Cheers

Sep 30, 1982

Bride-to-be Diane Chambers becomes the center of attention at a cozy bar called Cheers.

Oct 7, 1982

Diane's teasing about his airhead women sends Sam looking for a date of a higher cerebral plane and an old customer insists he must see the former owner to discuss his personal problems.

Oct 14, 1982

Carla's fiery temper almost costs Sam the bar when she attacks an obnoxious Yankees fan.

Oct 21, 1982

Sam realizes how much he misses his former sports celebrity status when a local newscaster asks to interview him again.

Oct 28, 1982

Coach's daughter brings the obnoxious lout she plans to marry to meet her father.

Nov 4, 1982

Diane becomes upset when Sam hits on an old friend of hers who's on the rebound from an unhappy love affair.

Nov 11, 1982

Norm tries to make points with the boss by planning the annual office party at Cheers and arranging for Diane to be the old man's "date".

Nov 18, 1982

Diane and Carla decide to bury the hatchet over after work drinks, which lead to a startling confession from Carla about her youngest child.

Nov 25, 1982

Coach and Sam become unlikely romantic rivals for Coach's new neighbor.

Dec 2, 1982

Rick Walker, a friend of Sam, seeks his advice on how to end a losing streak.

Dec 9, 1982

While Diane keeps notes on bar conversation, a novice comes in for one final fling before entering a monastery and a World War I doughboy shows up for a very small reunion.

Dec 16, 1982

The bar patrons are all enthralled by the mysterious gentleman who claims to be a secret agent.

Jan 6, 1983

Sam lets the sexy appeal of an agent and the glamour of the public spotlight lure him into being a TV pitchman.

Jan 13, 1983

Diane looks to her friends for comfort when her cat dies, but finds everyone too enthralled by a Celtics game to notice.

Jan 20, 1983

Carla has a secret that's about to be revealed:she's five months pregnant.

Jan 27, 1983

Cheers' regulars fear the place may become a gay hangout after an old friend of Sam's reveals his homosexuality on TV.

Feb 10, 1983

Sam and Diane dare each other to find the other's perfect date, but Sam's last minute choice doesn't quite measure up.

Feb 17, 1983

Sam enters Diane in the "Miss Boston Barmaid" contest without telling her.

Feb 24, 1983

Sam enlists Harry the conman to help fleece a card shark who cheated Coach out of a lot of money.

Mar 3, 1983

Diane's mother turns up at Cheers with the news that Diane must marry before the next day or her mother will lose her share of Diane's father's estate.

Mar 24, 1983

Diane's fascination with Sam's older brother brings their long simmering relationship to a boil when the sibling asks Diane to go to Paris with him.

Mar 31, 1983

Diane's fascination with Sam's older brother brings their long simmering relationship to a boil when the sibling asks Diane to go to Paris with him.

Sep 29, 1983

The regular gang finds Sam and Diane's romance hard to believe, a view apparently shared by Diane, who throws Sam out of her apartment after only five minutes.

Oct 13, 1983

Carla goes on a maternity leave and is replaced by her supposedly shy and innocent sister.

Oct 20, 1983

Diane, angry at the implication that she couldn't hold a job anywhere but Cheers, leaves for better position and Norm leaves Vera.

Oct 27, 1983

Andy, the ex-con Sam arranged as a blind date for Diane, returns to Cheers to show off his acting ability.

Nov 3, 1983

Diane's intellectual former fiance returns to reclaim her and puts Sam into an anxiety attack when he tries to measure up by reading Tolstoy.

Nov 10, 1983

Carla rejects a man interested in her romantically, convinced that he must have some "fatal flaw" to find her attractive.

Nov 17, 1983

Sam's old buddy Dave Richards bets Sam he can break up his romance with Diane within 24 hours and it looks like a sure thing when Diane learns he still has his little black book.

Nov 24, 1983

Coach becomes a slave driver when he's put in charge of Little League team.

Dec 1, 1983

Sam and Diane go to work after Dick Cavett suggests that Sam's autobiography might sell and Norm confronts an old flame of Vera's who's interested in her again.

Dec 8, 1983

Sam casually tells Diane he loves her and sends her deep into an introspective analysis of their relationship.

Dec 15, 1983

Diane is at first incredulous then furious when it becomes apparent that Sam and her old school chum find each other very attractive.

Dec 22, 1983

Sam lets a dying man tend bar just for fun, but the man leaves the bar patrons $100,000 in a paper napkin will.

Jan 5, 1984

Not wanting to appear lonely and dateless whilst going to her ex-husband Nick's wedding ceremony to blonde bimbo Loretta, Carla asks Sam to accompany her.

Jan 12, 1984

Sam regrets asking Norm to do his taxes when the out of work accountant comes up with a five figure refund.

Jan 19, 1984

Sam and Diane want to spend some time alone together, but the lonely Coach keeps joining them, not realising he is spoiling things for them. Rather than hurt his feelings by asking him not to bother them, Sam and Diane decide to set him up with a woman so they will be left in piece.

Jan 26, 1984

Cliff's know-it-all attitude finally gets him into a fight with another patron.

Feb 2, 1984

Coach is conned into buying an old scale which also prints out fortunes, and the Cheers gang each see their fortunes - except for Diane, who thinks it is all a load of rubbish. Meanwhile, Norm and Vera make progress in their relationship.

Feb 9, 1984

Sam lies to Diane about the weekend he has planned chasing snow bunnies in Vermont.

Feb 16, 1984

An old friend of Coach has died and Coach decides to hold a memorial to him in the bar, inviting all their old friends. But then Coach discovers his late friend made a pass at his late wife.

Feb 23, 1984

The regulars push Norm into pursuing an attractive new client who seems to be interested in him.

May 3, 1984

Sam commissions a portrait of Diane from an artist so obnoxious that he soon forbids Diane to continue posing for him, an order Diane won't accept.

May 10, 1984

Sam commissions a portrait of Diane from an artist so obnoxious that he soon forbids Diane to continue posing for him, an order Diane won't accept.

Sep 27, 1984

Coach asks Diane to return to Cheers from her self-imposed ""vacation"" to help Sam, who has fallen off the wagon.

Oct 4, 1984

Coach asks Diane to return to Cheers from her self-imposed ""vacation"" to help Sam, who has fallen off the wagon.

Oct 18, 1984

Frasier asks Sam for some advice about his more intimate relationship with Diane and Cliff hides out from a vengeful fellow postal employee.

Oct 25, 1984

Cliff meets a woman during a costume party at Cheers that he likes very much, but he's afraid to see her again as himself.

Nov 1, 1984

Sam makes up an elaborate story to explain how he got shot in the rear end, not wanting to tell everyone the real reason - he was shot at by a jealous husband.

Nov 8, 1984

Coach falls in love with a woman who dumps him after she wins a big lottery while Sam strikes out with her daughter.

Nov 15, 1984

Coach falls in love with a woman who dumps him after she wins a big lottery while Sam strikes out with her daughter.

Nov 22, 1984

Diane meets Frasier's mother, who quietly threatens to kill Diane if she doesn't leave Frasier alone.

Nov 29, 1984

Nick returns and demands of Carla a more equitable division of their marital property: namely him getting custody of one of their kids, a demand to which Carla agrees.

Dec 6, 1984

Diane suffers a mysterious allergic reaction after moving in with Frasier.

Dec 13, 1984

Norm becomes aware of his own mortality and decides to throw it all in and take off for Bora Bora.

Dec 20, 1984

Sam meets one of Diane's intense friends, who has her parents over to meet Sam, their future son-in-law, hours after their first date.

Jan 3, 1985

Frasier is devastated when he learns that his learned mentor has been dating Carla, who also has a little surprise of her own.

Jan 10, 1985

The guys take Frasier on a ""snipe"" hunt in the woods after Diane asks them to include the psychologist in their masculine pursuits.

Jan 24, 1985

Sam returns to the mound for a charity softball game against Playboy bunnies, but his competitive spirit ruins the day when he strikes them all out.

Jan 31, 1985

Sam and the Coach are taking the same night school course in geography, but while Coach studies, Sam dates the teacher.

Feb 7, 1985

Norm gets arrested when he finishes the route for an ill Cliff, but Cliff refuses to back up Norm's explanation to the authorities.

Feb 14, 1985

Sam stands to lose the bar to an old friend because of a bet that he would marry Jacqueline Bissett before a certain date.

Feb 21, 1985

Sam faces the ultimate challenge to his skills as a male animal; a lady reporter who has been investigating the Boston singles scene and has heard every line in the book.

Feb 28, 1985

After his second wife Loretta kicks him out, Carla's ex-husband Nick Tortelli comes to Cheers asking Carla to take him back.

Mar 7, 1985

Norm is promoted to company hatchet man because of his unique style for letting people go.

Apr 11, 1985

Diane announces that she's leaving Cheers to accompany Frasier to Italy and Sam throws her a going-away party.

Apr 18, 1985

Carla insists that Sam should hire an older woman to replace Diane but she doesn't reckon on Sam's attraction to the woman's daughter.

May 2, 1985

Carla calls together her former classmates from St. Clete's School for Wayward Girls to plot revenge on their former sadistic principal whom she spots drinking at Cheers.

May 9, 1985

Frasier proposes to Diane while they're in Italy and she makes an emergency call to Sam, hoping he'll talk her out of it.

Sep 26, 1985

After the sad passing away of Coach, Sam hires a new bartender in Woody Boyd, Coach's pen pal who has moved to Boston. Frasier arrives back from Europe with the news that Diane left him at the altar for six months of decadent living across Europe and is now seeking renewal in a Boston monastery.

Oct 3, 1985

The gang brings Woody's old girl friend to Boston to visit him and Frasier, still not yet confident about returning to psychiatry, decides to pay his bar bill by working as a janitor.

Oct 17, 1985

Diane fantasizes over an expensive coat left behind by a patron and agrees to go out with whoever claims it.

Oct 24, 1985

Carla asks Sam to tell her teenage son about the joys of bachelorhood and to discourage his urge to get married.

Oct 31, 1985

Diane spends a dark and stormy night worrying that Andy Schroeder has escaped and is out to kill her.

Nov 7, 1985

Sam loans Diane $500 to buy a book autographed by Ernest Hemmingway. She later gives the book to Sam as collateral until she pays back the loan, but Sam accidentally destroys it.

Nov 14, 1985

The guys at the bar feel sorry for Carla because nobody has responded to her newspaper singles ad. So they start sending her romantic responses from a fictional airline pilot.

Nov 21, 1985

Norm fears Vera may be having an affair with his neighbor and Sam wastes his time as a radio sports commentator apologizing to Diane.

Nov 28, 1985

Sam has to convince Woody to help Cheers win a bowling match with Gary's Old Towne Tavern at a rival bar.

Dec 5, 1985

Cliff refuses to identify himself to his estranged father when the man comes to Cheers with an important message for his son.

Dec 12, 1985

Sam is happy to be the subject of Diane's psychology term paper until he learns just exactly what the Don Juan syndrome is.

Dec 19, 1985

Sam thinks he's doing Woody a favor by not placing a bet for the young man, but the long shot comes in and Sam has to pay off.

Jan 9, 1986

Sam's ego is crushed when no one bids on his old baseball jersey during a public television auction.

Jan 16, 1986

Diane arranges for a stranger to come into Cheers as part of an experiment in paranoid behavior, but then she provides an even better example as she waits for the gang to get back at her.

Jan 23, 1986

Diane and Sam try to rebuild Frasier's shattered ego when he starts drinking too much.

Jan 30, 1986

Cliff has two dates for the postman's ball-with Carla and Diane.

Feb 6, 1986

Frasier has been out on a date with a fellow psychiatrist, Dr Lilith Sternin, but things didn't go too well. Frasier feels depressed, so feeling sorry for him, Sam arranges a date between Frasier and a woman he knows named Candy. But Sam and Diane get a surprise when Frasier proposes to Candy after just one date.

Feb 13, 1986

Norm gets some dirt on his main competitor for a promotion but hesitates to use it.

Feb 20, 1986

After trying (and failing) to hit on a pretty female customer, Sam feels like he is over the hill and challenges Woody to a racquetball game. Unfortunately Sam ends up hurting himself and has to take a trip to the hospital.

Feb 27, 1986

Carla asks Sam to partner her in a dance contest where their main competition is Nick and Loretta.

Mar 13, 1986

A flying daredevil that Diane barnstormed with across Europe takes her and Sam for a ride and dies at 20,000 feet up.

Mar 20, 1986

Diane feels depressed and left out of the gang's activities so Frasier organizes a day just for her-at the opera.

Mar 27, 1986

Sam hires a new bartender and appoints himself as host/manager of Cheers. But when his new strategy goes belly-up and he is forced to return to the bar, somebody has to be fired.

May 1, 1986

Local councilwoman Janet Eldridge comes to Cheers as part of her re-election campaign, and Sam finds hismelf smitten with her. Janet and Sam become a couple, but a jealous Diane joins the opposition campaign fearing that if Janet wins the election, she will win Sam's heart as well. Meanwhile Frasier also joins the opposition campaign hoping to win Diane back.

May 8, 1986

Sam and Janet's relationship is getting stronger and stronger whilst Diane gets more jealous. Janet suggests that Sam fire iane to sever all ties with his past, but Diane overhears and quits before he can fire her. Vera's sister Donna is visiting the Petersons and Norm is worried that Donna will flirt with him like she did on her last visit.

May 15, 1986

Janet has won the election and is hosting her press conference at Cheers. Diane turns up to apologize to Sam but ends up asking Janet some personal questions which causes Sam to throw her out of the bar. Later Sam and Janet talk and realize their relationship won't work, so break it off. Sam then picks up the telephone, rings someone and then asks them to marry him..... Meanwhile Vera has been called away, so Donna is left alone with Norm, much to his horror.

Sep 25, 1986

We finally found out who Sam's telephone proposal at the end of the last episode was to - Diane! But Diane fears that Sam is meerely on the rebound after breaking up with Janet, so asks him to repeat the proposal in a more romantic occasion, but when he does (on a boat), she refuses, causing Sam to make her walk the plank. Later Diane says she does want to get married, but Sam has now retracted the proposal.

Oct 2, 1986

Diane follows Sam to Cape Cod in an effort to ruin his weekend with another woman.

Oct 9, 1986

Cliff's ecstatic when his mother decides to marry a wealthy man until the groom decides to give it all away to charity.

Oct 16, 1986

Diane tries to help Lilith, the lady psychologist attracted to Frasier, to soften her appearance and surprise Frasier during their television debate.

Oct 30, 1986

Cliff finds a reasonably priced older home for Carla to buy that turns out to be haunted.

Nov 6, 1986

The gang insists on getting in on Norm's new business investment then complains bitterly when it looks like a washout.

Nov 13, 1986

Stung by Diane's attitude, Sam tries to impress her by getting reservations at the most exclusive restaurant in Boston.

Nov 20, 1986

Cliff prods a reluctant Norm to join his lodge and Sam thinks Diane has invented a suitor to make him jealous.

Nov 27, 1986

The gang gathers at Carla's house for a Thanksgiving dinner of frozen turkey and overdone peas.

Dec 4, 1986

Diane becomes obsessed with tracking down a poem she's sure Sam plagiarized and had published in a literary magazine that has repeatedly turned her work down.

Dec 11, 1986

Woody delves into Sam's legendary black book to find a date to impress his former girl friend, who is coming to Cheers to introduce her fiancé.

Dec 18, 1986

Frasier's effort to lighten a dance instructor's harsh criticism of Diane's efforts backfires when she decides to audition for the Boston Ballet.

Jan 8, 1987

Sam proposes to Diane again and ends up charged with assault and battery when she turns him down again.

Jan 15, 1987

Sam regrets trying to buy Diane an engagement ring that is a cheap imitation.

Jan 22, 1987

Diane and Carla console Loretta, who has caught Nick cheating on her. They counsel her to stand on her own two feet and leave Nick. When Nick comes into the bar to claim her back, a chivalrous Sam stands up for her. Nick takes that as a sign that Sam has stolen Loretta from him. So Nick threatens to steal the same from Sam, that being Diane. Nick makes an attempt to wine and dine Diane, then Loretta, then Carla and then any of the three who will give him the time of day. Meanwhile, Frasier, the chess expert, has met his match in simpleton Woody.

Jan 29, 1987

Carla falls for Eddie, a hockey goalie; meanwhile, Diane is foreman of a jury in an attempted murder trial.

Feb 5, 1987

Carla and Eddie are now in a relationship. Ever since Carla blew him the kiss and Eddie let in that cheap goal, Eddie has been on a slump. The most superstitious couple ever, Eddie and Carla analyze Eddie's life routine since the slump started, the only change in routine being Carla in his life. Not only does Carla come to the conclusion that she may be a jinx, but so does every one else in the bar. Carla has to decide to dump Eddie and have him regain his winning streak, or stay with Eddie at the price of the Bruins. Or is there another solution? Meanwhile, Diane is still at the trial and still talking to whoever will listen to her. Reminiscent of 12 Angry Men (1957), Diane stands alone in the jury as the dissenting voice thinking that the accused is guilty, comparing the relationship of the accused and his victim wife to Sam and herself. If she can't win in the court of law, she figures, out of a streak of good luck, that she can win outside the legal system.

Feb 12, 1987

For the bachelor party the guys at the bar throw for Sam, Woody offhandedly asks Diane if she would be the girl who jumps out of the cake. Although she abhors such male sexual rituals, she agrees if only to stop someone else from "pleasuring" Sam. At the party, just as Diane is ready to come out of the cake, Norm makes a comment which makes Sam re examine out loud for the first time this wedding and the fact that Diane will now be the one and only woman in his life. After jumping out of the cake mad at Sam for his comments, Diane later offers Sam a proposition: she will give him a last 24-hours of freedom to do whatever he pleases with whomever he pleases. Sam excitedly agrees until Diane throws in that she too will have her last 24-hours of freedom to do whatever she pleases with whomever she pleases. Will Sam still go along with Diane's plan and if so what will he do and what will she do?

Feb 19, 1987

On his postal route, Cliff is bitten by a dog, and decides to sue the owner for $200,000. Madeline, the dog's owner, ends up being a beautiful, voluptuous woman, but one that is up front about wanting to help Cliff despite the fact that she has little money. Cliff and Madeline start dating, the gang at the bar thinking that it only a ploy on her part for Cliff not to sue. Cliff realizes this is the case, but is still dating her in hopes of trading dropping the lawsuit for a roll in the sack. Madeline announces to everyone that her lawyer wants her to get Cliff to sign a waiver to absolve her of any responsibility, but she refuses to do so. Perhaps Madeline really does like Cliff. Or maybe she's got other methods of getting her way. Madeline and Cliff make it all the way to bed in a nice suite at the Ritz, when... Meanwhile, Diane is off on a Buddhist monastery retreat for a couple of weeks.

Feb 26, 1987

Frasier and Lilith invite Sam and Diane over for dinner to celebrate their first week of cohabitation. But things start going wrong when Lilith finds out Frasier and Diane were engaged, and she locks herself in the bathroom. Then Sam and Diane have an argument as well. Meanwhile Cliff agrees to babysit Carla's kids.

Mar 5, 1987

Diane badgers a noted British marriage counselor into seeing her and Sam for a pre-nuptial session, then refuses to heed his advice.

Mar 19, 1987

Sam's goddaughter Joyce Pantusso (the late Coach's niece) has come to Boston for a visit. Not wanting her to get into trouble, Sam asks Woody to help her out and show her around - but Woody and Joyce have a surprise for Sam when they get engaged!

Mar 26, 1987

Norm elaborates on his new position with a top CPA firm and is caught in his little white lies when the gang decides to surprise him at work. Meanwhile Cliff finds a $20 note - and Woody has lost one.

Apr 2, 1987

The gang tries to reassure a nervous Mr. and Mrs. Boyd back in Indiana that Woody is fine and has wonderful friends in Boston by making a home movie of an average day at Cheers.

Apr 30, 1987

Diane is haunted by the memories of the couple who lived a long and happy life together in the home she and Sam have purchased.

May 7, 1987

Dr. Sumner Sloane returns to Cheers on Diane and Sam's wedding day to tell her that a publisher is interested in one of her class manuscripts if she can go to work immediately on rewrites.

Sep 24, 1987

Sam returns to Cheers six months after he sold it to a large corporation to pursue a life of leisure on board a new boat. Now the boat has sunk and he's looking for a job.

Oct 1, 1987

Sam tries to dodge his bar duties so he can fill in for a friend as a sports broadcaster.

Oct 15, 1987

Carla and Eddie plan to get married if they can get past superstition, Eddie's mother, Carla's children, and Rebecca's nerves as she waits for her boss to show up at the bar.

Oct 22, 1987

Carla and Eddie plan to get married if they can get past superstition, Eddie's mother, Carla's children, and Rebecca's nerves as she waits for her boss to show up at the bar.

Oct 29, 1987

The gang tries to convince Frasier that Rebecca desires him after he quarrels with Lilith and Rebecca replaces Sam's picture with one of Robert Urich.

Nov 5, 1987

Norm gets to know Rebecca better when he paints her office as a way of paying off his bar tab.

Nov 12, 1987

Cliff is opposed to selling out the family home so a convenience store can be built there, but his mother is all for the idea. Meanwhile, the gang tries to find out about Rebecca's college knickname- ""Backseat Becky"".

Nov 19, 1987

Sam and Woody are up for bids at a charity auction but less than thrilled at their new ""owners.""

Nov 26, 1987

Woody meets an elderly woman while wearing his makeup for the role of Mark Twain, and begins dating her.

Dec 3, 1987

Rebecca asks an eager Sam to escort her to a company function to correct a false impression held by her boss.

Dec 10, 1987

Cliff helps his girl friend improve her appearance then regrets it when all sorts start to hit on her, including Sam.

Dec 17, 1987

Christmas Eve is depressing at Cheers as Sam rushes to find Rebecca a gift, Rebecca makes everyone work late, and Norm's Santa Claus buddies gather to celebrate the end of the season.

Jan 7, 1988

Woody tries to convince his friends that he got a small part on Spenser: For Hire and Cliff and Norm quarrel about a practical joke involving a chimpanzee.

Jan 14, 1988

Woody takes responsibility for a vase broken by Rebecca at a company party, and winds up pals with the big boss.

Jan 21, 1988

Annie Tortelli fills in for Carla at Cheers and Mr. Drake makes Rebecca turn green by personally hiring a pretty young woman to work at Cheers.

Feb 4, 1988

Rebecca thinks she's finally got a shot at Evan Drake when he invites her and Sam for a weekend aboard his yacht.

Feb 11, 1988

Frasier's bachelor party turns out depressing and bleak while Lilith's shower threatens to burst into flames.

Feb 18, 1988

Rebecca moons over Evan Drake's bedroom as Norm repaints it, but she's caught when the man returns unexpectedly.

Feb 25, 1988

Carla tries to conquer her fear of flying with Frasier's help and Rebecca waits tensely for a visit from a restaurant critic.

Mar 3, 1988

Rebecca is hurt and jealous when Sam's promoted to corporate headquarters until she finds out why he was moved up.

Mar 10, 1988

Rebecca decides to take Woody's suggestion of raffling off a Caribbean vacation to get the bar out of a slump.

Mar 24, 1988

Lilith and Rebecca throw a teenage slumber party to cheer up Carla after she learns she's soon going to be a grandmother.

Mar 31, 1988

The gang at Cheers declares war when rival bar, Gary's Old Town Tavern, steals the trophy celebrating their one and only sporting victory in a bowling tournament.

Apr 28, 1988

Sam and Woody wager over who can be the first to plant a three-second kiss on Rebecca.

May 5, 1988

A desperate Rebecca goes to extraordinary lengths for a moment alone with Evan Drake as he prepares to move to Japan.

Oct 27, 1988

Rebecca is still smarting from Evan Drake's departure to Japan. So instead of men, she focuses her energies on furthering her career - she figures that Evan Drake took all the key players from the company to Japan with him, and thus all those that knew she is a "washout" are now all gone - and buying a Mercedes. But realistically, her defences are weakened, so when Sam asks her out again, she accepts, albeit without much enthusiasm. Just as Rebecca and Sam are about to go on their first date, Rebecca's new boss, Greg Stone, comes to the bar. Rebecca, having a boss fixation, drops Sam at the sight of Mr. Stone. For her, it is love at first sight all over again.

Nov 3, 1988

Sam makes a rash promise to God that he'll remain celibate if only someone else is the father of an old girl friend's baby.

Nov 10, 1988

Rebecca puts Sam off by telling him that from now on she'll only date men who can advance her career, and then she meets her younger-than-springtime new boss.

Nov 17, 1988

Sam goes to Mexico to open a new bar for the company, robbing Rebecca of her ""fiance"" and her only defense against the marriage proposal of her baby boss.

Nov 24, 1988

Carla throws a jealous fit when she suspects that Eddie is fooling around with someone from the ice show.

Dec 8, 1988

Norm tries to hide the fact that he's become an interior decorator.

Dec 15, 1988

Cliff drastically alters his personality after no one from the bar comes to visit him during his hospital stay with appendicitis.

Dec 22, 1988

The gang decides to take up sky diving as a diversion.

Jan 5, 1989

Sam finds himself attracted to both an old girlfriend and her grown daughter while Woody volunteers to be the clown at the boss' kid's birthday party Rebecca is planning.

Jan 12, 1989

Cheers gets another chance of losing a contest to their cross-town rivals at Gary's Old Towne Tap; this time the contest is for "Boston's Best Bloody Mary."

Jan 19, 1989

Rebecca offers to housesit for one of the company executives and calls on Sam and Woody for help when the man's beloved dog runs away.

Feb 2, 1989

Cliff's loyalties are tested when his new ladylove, a fellow postal employee, commits a rule infraction on his behalf.

Feb 9, 1989

Woody decides to steal Kelly, a rich snob's girl, away when the man humiliates him.

Feb 16, 1989

Lilith and Frasier practice their parenting skills on Carla's precocious six-year-old son.

Feb 23, 1989

Rebecca tries to impress corporate headquarters by using her marketing skills to promote Norm's one man painting business and Sam tries to keep up with a sweet young thing wild about all kinds of sports.

Mar 2, 1989

Lilith persuades Frasier to give up everything urban and move with her to a cabin in the wilds.

Mar 16, 1989

Sam introduces everyone to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, an old fan, but Rebecca later believes the old man stole her diamond earrings.

Mar 30, 1989

Sam actually fakes a case of impotence to get close to a therapist Lilith and Frasier introduced to him.

Apr 6, 1989

Woody's rich girl friend doesn't fully appreciate his inexpensive but heartfelt birthday gift and Rebecca transforms herself to further her career prospects.

Apr 13, 1989

Woody gets gambling fever and tension mounts as Carla waits for Eddie to surprise her on their second anniversary.

Apr 27, 1989

Sam tries to reconcile Rebecca and her sister.

May 4, 1989

Rebecca accuses a respected authority on marital fidelity of making a pass at her.

Sep 21, 1989

Just as Rebecca fears for her sanity because of the erotic dreams she's been having about Sam, multi-millionaire Robin Colcord sweeps her off her feet.

Sep 28, 1989

Just as Rebecca fears for her sanity because of the erotic dreams she's been having about Sam, she's swept off her feet by multi-millionaire Robin Colcord.

Oct 12, 1989

Rebecca prepares herself to spend her first night with Robin Colcord while Sam takes the first step towards owning the bar again.

Oct 19, 1989

The young woman Cliff turned in for stealing a Post Office vehicle returns from Canada with an offer that literally blinds Cliff.

Oct 26, 1989

Norm invents a strict curmudgeon of a partner to boss around his easygoing paint crew while Sam goes crazy with concern after selling his precious 'Vette.

Nov 2, 1989

Lilith spoils Rebecca's elaborately planned celebration of Cheers' 100th anniversary by going into labor.

Nov 9, 1989

Carla learns that Eddie led a secret life when a second widow shows up at his funeral.

Nov 16, 1989

Frasier and the guys cringe over plans to attend his son's circumcision while Rebecca struggles to throw an interesting retirement party for a very dull corporate employee.

Nov 23, 1989

Woody has trouble with the love scenes for his first starring role and the guys have a beard-growing competition.

Nov 30, 1989

Rebecca and Sam are trapped overnight in Robin Colcord's deluxe security apartment while the gang passes the time playing Monopoly.

Dec 7, 1989

Norm fires his secretary, who sees it as proof that he's wildly attracted to her and Rebecca becomes obsessed with a surprise hidden in the desk Robin, gave her.

Dec 14, 1989

Robin lends Sam and the gang his yacht race in a regatta, but the motley crew discovers a bomb in the refrigerator, right next to the beer.

Jan 4, 1990

Carla faces an audit while Rebecca's mentor, her business school professor, makes an investment in Sam.

Jan 18, 1990

Jeopardy makes an appearance in Boston, and Cliff gets on the show. The Jeopardy! round had all 6 categories Cliff specializes in, such as celebrities or the US Postal Service. But when Final Jeopardy approaches, he loses all his money putting a stupid response ""Who are three people that have never visited my kitchen?"" and becomes depressed afterwards. Meanwhile someone has stolen Sam's little black book and started ringing all the girls in it.

Jan 25, 1990

Tonight might be the night that Rebecca and Robin finally get together, despite Sam's presence.

Feb 1, 1990

The aftermath of their get together isn't all she hoped it would be, when Rebecca finds Robin with another woman.

Feb 8, 1990

A mechanical bull gets the better of Cliff while Woody tries to deal with the romantic advances of his girl friend's mother.

Feb 15, 1990

Lilith goes on a talk show to promote her new book about men who are bad for women and takes along her prime example-Sam.

Feb 22, 1990

Rebecca dreams of a perfectly romantic day with Robin. Robin on the other hand has dared Sam to a series of adolescent challenges.

Mar 8, 1990

Carla and Eddie's other widow Gloria become best buddies but the friendship is threatened when Carla learns the two-timer left $50,000 in insurance and Woody worries about a nude scene when he's cast in a revival of Hair.

Mar 15, 1990

Despite the truce negotiated by Rebecca, the gang decides to warm up the cold war against Gary's Olde Towne Tavern when they notice the statue of Tecumseh the Indian is missing.

Mar 29, 1990

Woody moons over the fact that Kelly is going to Europe to attend school and Norm suffers through being the designated driver for the evening.

Apr 12, 1990

Carla feels compelled to call in an exorcist when Eddie's ghost appears in the bar and Rebecca complains to a TV station about a defective hair removal system.

Apr 19, 1990

Sam makes Rebecca jealous in many strange ways by telling her that he scored with Robin's other girl friend, and Woody is flabbergasted when a girl answers his ad for a roommate.

Apr 26, 1990

Rebecca and Sam both have mixed emotions as they face the fact that Robin Colcord, after proposing to Rebecca, is arrested for insider trading based on information supplied by the once and future owner of Cheers.

May 3, 1990

Rebecca and Sam both have mixed emotions as they face the fact that Robin Colcord, after proposing to Rebecca, is arrested for insider trading based on information supplied by the once and future owner of Cheers.

Sep 20, 1990

In the afterglow of their intimate encounter, Rebecca becomes determined to deny that it ever happened, to the gang at the bar, to Robin and to herself.

Sep 27, 1990

Sam tries to beat Gary at his own game in a grudge basketball game by recruiting Boston Celtics' star Kevin McHale as a substitute bartender at Cheers.

Oct 4, 1990

Sam hires a new bar manager that everyone seems to like, then learns how low Rebecca has sunk in her pursuit of new employment.

Oct 11, 1990

Rebecca is secretly very upset when one of Robin's previous lovers goes public claiming to be his current affair.

Oct 18, 1990

Cliff gets very hurt and upset when his mother decides that Woody is the son she never had, and Norm gets caught in a window.

Oct 25, 1990

Norm nearly has a cow when he hears that the Hungry Heifer is closing down, and mounts an all-out campaign to keep it going, while Rebecca frets over seeing Robin as he works in the street nearby as part of a road gang.

Nov 1, 1990

Lilith and Frasier try to cope with the fact that their son needs more care from them while Rebecca and Carla try to figure out how Rebecca can pay Robin a conjugal visit in jail.

Nov 15, 1990

Sam initiates a feud with the new owner of Melville's, the restaurant upstairs when snobbish restaurateur John Hill buys the building.

Nov 22, 1990

Woody gets a big break when he's cast in a commercial for a new vegetable drink but Cliff just feels broken when the new trivia napkins upstage him.

Dec 6, 1990

Woody gets hooked on a home television-shopping channel while Norm and Cliff start a fight between Sam and Frasier.

Dec 13, 1990

Kelly returns from Europe with a new French boyfriend and Cliff decides to have his head cryogenically frozen before he dies.

Jan 3, 1991

Carla's formidable mother demands on her deathbed that Carla name one of her children "Benito Mussolini."

Jan 10, 1991

Sam decides to settle his feud with John Hill by dating the man's daughter and Carla fears that the foosball table is possessed.

Jan 24, 1991

Rebecca parties hearty to hide her second thoughts after Robin finally pops the question and Frasier develops a passion for the new sing-along machine.

Jan 31, 1991

Rebecca awakens on her wedding morning raring to go, and seems determined to ignore Sam's attempts to remind her of her doubts, and Righteous Brother Bobby Hatfield upstages Frasier.

Feb 7, 1991

Rebecca has trouble accepting the fact that she cancelled her wedding with Robin and Frasier translates Dickens' classic prose into Boston vernacular.

Feb 14, 1991

On Valentine's Day, Sam winds up laid out due to back trouble on the 20th anniversary of his annual tryst with Lauren.

Feb 21, 1991

Rebecca decides on a new goal in life and begins by flattering John Hill in an effort to get his lease for the bar.

Feb 28, 1991

Norm develops a rich paranoia and decides to look for another bar when wife Vera gets a job upstairs at Melville's, and Lilith helps the gang celebrate Frasier's birthday.

Mar 14, 1991

Rebecca wants to serve Woody's chili in the poolroom despite Sam's heartfelt objections.

Mar 21, 1991

Carla faces the hardest task of her life when she tries to be nice to Cliff after learning he's one of the judges for the Miss Boston Barmaid competition.

Mar 28, 1991

Sam's old baseball rival shows up to goad Sam into a final round on the mound, but Sam isn't too sure he wants to go.

Apr 4, 1991

Lilith grieves over the death of her favorite lab rat while bar support Paul proves an unlikely target for a sexy seduction.

Apr 25, 1991

Sam enters a whole new world when he babysits for Frasier and Lilith, and Woody worries about Kelly when she goes to work at Cheers as part of a school project.

May 2, 1991

When Sam finds it difficult to back away from Frasier's son, he decides to have one of his own-if only he can find the right mommy.

Sep 19, 1991

Sam and Rebecca each separately turn to the Drs. Crane for help in conceiving a baby.

Sep 26, 1991

Frasier takes the guys on a trip to rediscover the ""inner man"" while the gals discover Carla's cousin Frankie when he fills in at the bar.

Oct 3, 1991

Carla is reluctant to accept the crystal ball passed to her by the retiring psychic, Madame Lazora.

Oct 10, 1991

Norm becomes a permanent house guest when he injures his back while painting at the Cranes'.

Oct 17, 1991

Cliff's girlfriend and mother take an instant liking to each other while Rebecca tries to entice Sam into some frozen fertility underwear.

Oct 24, 1991

Sam and Rebecca begin to doubt their resolve to be parents after caring Carla's wild bunch and Cliff lobbies for the job of directing Woody's video project for the folks back home.

Oct 31, 1991

Sam may have played his last prank when it appears that his Halloween trick may have killed his old nemesis Gary.

Nov 7, 1991

The gang feels responsible when the Celtics' Kevin McHale goes into a slump after becoming obsessed with the number of bolts in the floor of Boston Garden.

Nov 14, 1991

Sam gets upset when Carla gets sidetracked from revenge to romance with perennial nemesis John Hill.

Nov 21, 1991

Woody wants to propose to Kelly, but Henrí and his expiring visa take precedence.

Dec 5, 1991

Frasier has to face making out a will while Sam braces himself for bad news from Rebecca's fertility doctor.

Dec 12, 1991

Sam and Rebecca let their imaginations run free during a weekend of baby-making and dream up different versions of their future progeny.

Jan 2, 1992

Cliff and Norm help Frasier's low-esteem self-help group really help themselves and Woody trims Sam's hair.

Jan 9, 1992

Woody's extracurricular work as a gravedigger may pay for Kelly's engagement ring, but it also jeopardizes his first meeting with her grandmother.

Jan 16, 1992

Sam finds a way to get even with John Hill. One of Carla's sons decides to become a priest.

Jan 30, 1992

A Boston performance by children's singer Nanny Gee for Frederick's birthday sheds light on Frasier's past as Lilith and the barflies discover Nanny is Frasier's first wife! Frasier had forgotten to mention this fact to Lilith and when Nanny arrives at Cheers she and Lilith soon get into a catfight!

Feb 6, 1992

Woody's cousin develops a crush on Rebecca and Cliff is very unhappy with the new postal uniforms.

Feb 13, 1992

Rebecca insists she can handle the bar while the rest of the gang plays poker, then learns that she's allowed their liquor license to lapse.

Feb 20, 1992

The gang tries to bring Woody back to earth after a vacation in London with Kelly and her money.

Feb 27, 1992

Frasier wants Lilith to confront her overbearing mother and Rebecca wants Sam to make Norm pay his bar tab.

Mar 26, 1992

Sam ponders a baseball comeback, but when he goes to play a few games he discovers most of the players are much younger and immature than he is. They're acting just like he used to, and Sam doesn't think he enjoys acting like that anymore. Meanwhile, back in Boston, Frasier loses Lilith's favourite lab rat and tries to get an identical one before she returns.

Apr 23, 1992

Rebecca looks forward to seeing her high school sweetheart, unaware of the changes in his life, and Sam starts a support group for owners of stolen Corvettes.

Apr 30, 1992

The new owner of Gary's Olde Towne Tavern lack a sense of humor and respond badly to Cheers' latest prank.

May 7, 1992

Norm tells Cliff a little white lie about Carson using Cliff's material on The Tonight Show, then regrets it when Cliff comes up with two tickets to Burbank. Meanwhile Sam and Woody install a satellite dish at Cheers.

May 14, 1992

Woody and Kelly's wedding faces some funny obstacles, before and during the ceremony, including Sam's flirtation with a German guest who turns out to be married, the priest dying and Kelly's Uncle Roger having to perform the ceremony - but only if he is drunk, Rebecca having to ice the cake after insulting the kitchen staff, and Lilith having to sing to the guests in order to stop them, and Woody and Kelly, from finding out the disasters going on behind the scenes.

Sep 24, 1992

Rebecca's smoking gets her into big trouble when she accidentally starts a fire in the bar, and blames it on faulty wiring.

Oct 1, 1992

Carla is forced to clean up her act and behave nicely when she's forced to find another job while Cheers is being rebuilt. Woody's faith in Kelly is shaken when he learns they have religious differences.

Oct 8, 1992

A slot machine is accidentally sent to the bar. Everyone is hooked on playing it, which for them is not a bad thing as the machine is paying out to everyone, that is except to Rebecca. She sees her losing streak on the machine as a metaphor of her life. Feeling sorry for her, Sam has the machine rigged to pay out to Rebecca to make her feel better. That act doesn't quite come out as planned. Fortunes seem to be on the upswing for Norm. A stint on a beer tasting survey panel parlays itself into a paid position at the brewery as a quality taste tester. Norm is in seventh heaven and doesn't even feel the need to get paid for such work.

Oct 22, 1992

Sam catches Rebecca smoking in the office, a no-no considering that's how the bar burnt down. Sam thinks Rebecca needs professional help and finds the harshest stop smoking program for her. The stop smoking doctor, Dr. Kluger, and Rebecca, have a war of wills. Dr. Kluger may have met his match. Meanwhile, Sam hires Henrí on a temporary basis as a bartender while Woody is on his honeymoon. On his first shift, ladies-man Henrí bets Sam that he can get more women's telephone numbers than Sam by midnight. Although initially reluctant to partake in the bet despite pressure from the gang, Sam eventually does take the bet based on the patriotic battle between the US and France. Both Sam and Henrí pull out all the stops and resort to whatever tactic will work to get numbers. However, with the score tied with a couple of minutes left, Sam lets one go due to her vulnerable state, which may cost Sam the bet. However it may be more important ultimately to win the battle.

Oct 29, 1992

Maggie returns to Cheers and Cliffie, this time claiming she's carrying his baby. Rebecca hires a hack songwriter to create a jingle for the bar.

Nov 5, 1992

Rebecca spots Lilith with another man, and doesn't know whether to tell Frasier. Later, Lilith confesses to Frasier that she cheated on him - once. Frasier is devastated, and after he and Lilith talk about it, Frasier asks Lilith to tell her lover the affair is over. Lilith goes to see him - and then comes back saying she wants to leave Frasier. Meanwhile Sam hires a bouncer named Tiny, but can't bring himself to fire Tiny when nobody wants to go near him.

Nov 12, 1992

Lilith informs Frasier that she wants to spend a year away from him, sealed in a biosphere with her lover. Frasier reacts to this like any trained psychiatrist - he steps onto the ledge of Melville's and threatens to jump if Lilith leaves him. Lilith and Sam manage to talk him down, but Lilith insists their marriage is over. Once Lilith has gone, Frasier's friends rally round in support of him.

Nov 19, 1992

Kelly's father is convinced that Woody has blackmail on his mind when Woody sees Mr. Gaines cheating on his wife. Rebecca plans to hold a Thanksgiving dinner at the bar.

Dec 3, 1992

Cliff is convinced that his new neighbour is Adolf Hitler. If not for Ma standing up for him, Cliff would be evicted from the building for harassment. But Cliff's still not convinced as to his neighbour's true identity. Meanwhile, Carla and John Allen Hill continue their love-hate relationship. However it has gone to a new level, to a love-hate-heart attack stage. Hill had a heart attack while they were making love. Seemingly indifferent to the heart attack since Hill is just a romp in the hay, Carla eventually breaks down in tears since "her boyfriend" had a heart attack. She suspects that the reason he did have a heart attack is she spurted out the words "I love you" to Hill.

Dec 10, 1992

Woody and Kelly argue once again about the difference in their monetary status. Kelly wants to live in a house purchased by her father. Woody, not wanting any Gaines money, wants them to live in his old apartment as that's all he can afford. They compromise, which shows them that one side might be more correct in their outlook than the other. Meanwhile, Rebecca's father, Navy Captain Franklin E. Howe, comes to Boston for a visit. A tough as nails man and father, he demands that Rebecca, who has screwed up her life in Boston, move back to San Diego into her old room at their house. Apparently, he has controlled her her entire life, including providing her with an allowance. He expects that Rebecca will put up a fight and demand to live her life in Boston as she sees fit. Captain Howe has an ulterior motive for his visit to Boston of which Rebecca is unaware. If she knew her father's true motive, it would change the entire nature of their disagreement.

Dec 17, 1992

Woody's parents get a gift for Kelly and Woody: small pet pig named Snuffles. Pet is somewhat of a misnomer as the Boyds, from a farming background, see Snuffles as Christmas dinner. Rebecca has an immediate connection with Snuffles as an animal. She wants to buy Snuffles after she hears about its ultimate fate. When Woody won't sell, Rebecca sets Snuffles free in the country. When Rebecca hears who ends up finding Snuffles, she sees the story as a Christmas miracle, until... Meanwhile, Sam starts dating Susan Metheny, the widow of Kirby, the man who bought Sam's Corvette. Sam is only doing so as he wants his Corvette back at a reduced rate. Susan, a kindergarten teacher, is a nice, sweet, innocent, shy woman who is vulnerable at the best of times, let alone at this grieving point in her life.

Jan 7, 1993

Frasier decides to start dating other women now that Lilith has left him and Frederick, and makes a date with his secretary, Shauna. He arrives at Shauna's house only to discover that Shauna is just using him to annoy her parents as they are not letting her see her boyfriend - who then turns up unannounced. Meanwhile, Cheers is hosting a family reunion, and Cliff and Norm are videotaping it, but then discover the camera was never switched on and have to try and recreate the video without anyone realising.

Jan 14, 1993

The gang decide to watch an old Red Sox game on a classic sports channel, a game in which Sam played. As this game took place during one of his drunk years, Sam is unsure if he played well or made a fool of himself in the game. Since he finds out he pitched three innings in the game, he assumes he played well. After Sam makes a big deal about watching the game, Carla reminds him that that game was indeed not one of his finest moments. Sam does whatever he can to prevent the gang from watching it. Meanwhile, Norm is being audited. The auditor is Dot Carroll, a gravelly-voiced, chain-smoking, no-nonsense, scary tough broad. Norm, the ex-accountant, knows he can fudge his way through the audit even without legitimate receipts, but when his tricks don't work, he resorts to a tactic suggested by Carla: flirt. It works, much to Norm's dismay, as Dot invites Norm back to her hotel room. But a faithful Norm now doesn't know what to do as Dot expects a sexual evening.

Jan 21, 1993

Robin returns to Cheers, destitute. He has renounced his previous greedy ways, gave away the $6 million he had hidden in Rebecca's desk drawer and has decided to live a life of simple poverty. But admittedly, he still has feelings for Rebecca. Rebecca still has feelings for Robin, or at least for the $6 million she thinks he has. She thinks he's just testing her and that he still is rich. In the intervening time, Robin implied to the gang in an indirect way that he has hid another money belt filled with $6 million somewhere in the bar. Sam, Carla, Frasier, Norm and Cliff tear the bar apart, probe Robin and turn on each other trying to find the money belt. They then think that it was burned in the fire. But when they discover that Fire Captain Dobbins on duty the day of the fire is now retired with a sizable sum of money, they assume he stole the money.

Feb 4, 1993

Eighteen year old Serafina, Carla's daughter, announces that she is pregnant and wants to marry the father, a retired police officer living off disability who she loves. After discussing the issue, Carla gives Serafina her blessing and her financial support for the wedding. With her connection to Hill, Carla manages to arrange for the ceremony at Melville's - she's afraid of the bad wedding karma history at Cheers - and the reception at Cheers.

Feb 11, 1993

Frasier is upset when he hears that Lilith now officially want s a divorce. The staff at Cheers decide to hold a ""happy divorce"" party to cheer him up, and at the party, whilst Woody drinks too much and becomes a mean drunk, Frasier gets drunk. Afterwards Rebecca drives him home, but they end up in bed together. However, first the gang pop around to check Frasier is OK - and to watch ""The 3 Stooges"" - but just when they leave, who should show up but Lilith, who has escaped from the eco-pod...

Feb 18, 1993

After returning to Boston only to discover Frasier in bed with Rebecca, Lilith comes to Cheers to seek Sam's advice. Frasier comes after her, and Rebecca shows up as well to explain. Frasier says he can't take Lilith back after what she did - just as her lover, Dr Pascal, shows up and takes the gang as hostages unless Lilith returns to him. When Paul and John Allen Hill show up and also get taken as hostages, Lilith has to persuade Pascal to let them all go, and that she doesn't want to go back. Plus will she reconcille with Frasier?

Feb 25, 1993

Cliff and Norm mourn the closing of the Twi-Lite Drive-In Theatre and its associated memories of simpler times. In Ma Calvin's classic convertible, Cliff, Norm, Woody and newbie drive-inner Frasier - who ends up being trunk boy - head off to watch a Godzilla (1954) triple-header on the theatre's last night. The foursome have a mixed evening at the theatre, which includes enduring Cliff and Ma's rules of car etiquette and several run-ins with an angry car neighbour. But it's Ma's convertible that takes the brunt of the evening's battles. While the foursome are at the drive-in, Gus O'Malley, the previous owner of Cheers, stops by the bar. Sam offers Gus the opportunity to relive old times not only by tending bar, but managing the bar for the evening. Gus resorts to his old tactics of yelling and intimidation to get the staff to get working.

Mar 18, 1993

It's the annual St. Patrick's Day battle of sales between Cheers and Gary's Olde Towne Tavern. Not only does Cheers lose the battle of the hi-jinx with an unsuspecting Woody taking the brunt of the battle, Cheers also loses the sales bet. Sam has finally had as much as he can take not only with the loss once again to Gary's but performing the most humiliating task he and the guys have had to endure due to the loss. Sam threatens Gary and decides to pull out one of the biggest guns he knows: Harry the Hat. Sam asks Harry to devise and execute the ultimate plan to beat Gary. Harry refuses. Despite Carla's assertion to take matters into her own hands, Sam finally gives up permanently to Gary. When Sam goes over to Gary's to wave the final white flag, he witnesses in horror what he believes is Carla's master plan. But what he witnesses is part of a deal Gary made with Rutherford Cunningham, who Sam knows better by another name.

Apr 1, 1993

Sam locks his keys in the bar, meaning he can't go home. He goes to Carla's to get her keys to the bar, but Woody has them. Carla offers Sam her couch for the night, but John Allen Hill is there so Sam heads off. He visits the houses of Cliff, Norm and Frasier before finally ending up in Rebecca's house.

Apr 22, 1993

When City Councilman Kevin Fogarty comes to Cheers on his re-election campaign spouting a whole lot of political nothings that nonetheless woos the crowd, Frasier bets the gang that he can even get a trained monkey on the ballot and garner 10% of the vote. Without a trained monkey in sight, Frasier chooses Woody as a good surrogate. Frasier does indeed get enough signatures to get Woody on the ballot. Woody helps his own political cause when Holly Matheson, a local reporter covering the City Hall beat, mistakes Woody's farm talk as an analogy for the problems of City politics. In an early poll, Woody garners 8% popular support, enough for the gang to concede defeat to Frasier.

Apr 29, 1993

Because of Woody's civic election win, Sam needs another bartender, a job he gives to Carla. To celebrate, Carla whips up a batch of one of her powerhouse drinks for the guys. The day after, everyone has a hangover. What's worse, Carla, who imbibed and got drunk herself, has a sneaking suspicion that she took someone home and slept with him, that person she believes being one of the Cheers regulars. She confides in Sam alone, and after he tells her it wasn't him, she panics and they both ponder who it could have been, with her worse nightmare having it be Cliff. When her bed-mate ultimately reveals himself, Carla and Sam have to decide how best to handle the information. Two other revelations come to light in the aftermath of the drunken spree. And Sam makes an admission of his own to Carla to make her feel better about her own further revelation.

May 6, 1993

After Woody, Kelly and her father Lloyd arrive at Cheers talking about classical music (they'd been to a symphony), Rebecca joins in the conversation and impresses Lloyd. He invites her to a society function. Rebecca thinks it is a date and is thrilled to bits - but is in for a shock when she arrives. Meanwhile Esther Clavin has been put in a retirement home by Cliff, but whilst Cliff feels guilty, the others think he has murdered his mother.

May 13, 1993

Don Sentry walks into the bar and into Rebecca's life. He's the repairman called in to fix the bar tap. Although Don is not Rebecca's usual type, Frasier talks her into taking a chance when she states that someone like a Don is what she should be going after. Quickly, she falls head over heals, but Sam thinks she's settling for second best. He wants Rebecca to be his fall-back if in a couple of years he has not found "Mrs. Malone". Rebecca shoots back that he is an aging Lothario way past his prime. Frasier suggests to Sam, who is hurt by Rebecca's comments, that perhaps there is some truth to Rebecca's assertion about him and that he would benefit by group therapy for sexual compulsives. Sam does go to the meeting, and after a rough start, he does admit that perhaps he is no longer happy with his life.

May 20, 1993

Whilst watching the National Cable Ace Awards, the gang sees ex-waitress Diane Chambers winning the award for best writing in a mini-series. This leads to Sam calling Diane to congratulate her, and to find out that she is married and has children. Sam tells her Diane that he too has a wife and kids, and invites Diane and her husband to visit them. Sam strongly believes Diane is lying and becomes really shocked when she walks into Cheers the following day to meet Mrs Malone. Meanwhile Rebecca's boyfriend Don proposes to her and she accidently says no, ends up heartbroken and agrees to play Sam's wife to fool Diane. Sam and Rebecca have dinner with Diane and her husband, Reed Manchester. During the dinner Don arrives and proposes to her again, and this time she manages to say yes! They leave the dinner, and Sam thinks he must look like a fool. Then Diane's husband turns out to be a fake when *his* husband Kevin appears!